Given name & surname
Radovan
“being happy”
Radovan is a masculine given name. It is used in Czech, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Radovan goes back to a word meaning “being happy.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Radovan’s family of names
In Czech usage, Radovan has a diminutive in Radovanek. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Radovan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Радован.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Radovan
- Radovan ZogovićMontenegrin poet (1907–1986)
- Radovan ĆurčićSerbian football manager and playerborn 1972
- Radovan ViškovićPrime Minister of Republika Srpska since 2018born 1964
- Radovan PankovSerbian association football playerborn 1995
- Radovan VlajkovićPresident of SFR Yugoslavia (1924-2001)
- Radovan RichtaCzech academic and philosopher1924–1983
- Radovan LukavskýCzech dubbing actor, actor, professor and university educator (1919–2008)
- Radovan HromádkoCzech soccer player and soccer representantborn 1967
- Radovan VlatkovićCroatian musicianborn 1962
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